Bible verse
A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 19:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 19.
7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
8 He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.
9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
10 Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
11 A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
14 Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
KJV
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression.
ASV
The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
ERV
The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
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